Why pins?

[Shadow_Storm56]

Why do we still use pins for cpus...... either on the board or the chip itself. I get that it works yes but why haven't anyone came up with a safer method ? like having 2 flat surfaces that could mesh, or others. its pretty easy to not bend the pins but aweful if you do so I wonder why there hasent beeN a new way.

[MANIDY inc]

i lick my CPU and the pins still have not bent,

 

i keep it on my desk in no protective box, yet all pins are straighter then a kid in 50's 

 

so if you manage to bend pins on a intel board, umm you must be trying to do that

 

but the future cannot expand if people dont ask why,

[Shadow_Storm56]

I never have either but I still wonder why it's still pins.

[MANIDY inc]

1 hour ago, Shadow_Storm56 said:

I never have either but I still wonder why it's still pins.

probably something like if its not broken dont fix it?

 

but i get what you mean, why not make it so there is not part that can easily break, why not make the pins smaller (length wise) so the force needed to break them would be greater? im not an engineer so i cant say.

[ARikozuM]

You need to deliver electricity in a specific manner due to how the CPU substrate and transistors are laid out. Personally, I like AMD's implementation with pins on the CPU, less prone to damage.

[fjdhdhcyfhf]

what is the alternative? SoC?

[MANIDY inc]

1 hour ago, ARikozuM said:

You need to deliver electricity in a specific manner due to how the CPU substrate and transistors are laid out. Personally, I like AMD's implementation with pins on the CPU, less prone to damage.

lol yes but intel doesn't want to deal with RMA's on their CPU's  let the mobo manufacturers deal with it 

[ARikozuM]

4 minutes ago, MANIDY inc said:

lol yes but intel doesn't want to deal with RMA's on their CPU's  let the mobo manufacturers deal with it 

It wouldn't matter much anyway since a broken pin or two could kill a CPU.

[MANIDY inc]

1 hour ago, ARikozuM said:

It wouldn't matter much anyway since a broken pin or two could kill a CPU.

well you know people wont want a cpu with a broken pin, if they ever want to resell, id think most would RMA that if they can

[zMeul]

14 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

I like AMD's implementation with pins on the CPU, less prone to damage.

you forgot the obligatory sarcasm tag

 

I dreaded the days when CPUs got 400+ pins easy to bend

 

 

[ARikozuM]

For me, it was easier to bend those back into place or use a pin as a placeholder but with the sockets being pinned, straightening is a nightmare.

[Djole123]

You don't need pins. Take a look at mobile CPUs. Almost all of them have a BGA socket, which connects to the motherboard with solder balls. Wanna replace it? No problem, a soldering iron and 7 hours later it's swapped!

 

 

See, pins are there due to simplicity of installation. How frustrating would be to jam/unjam or solder/desolder a CPU? Yeah.